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Victor Hernandez Cruz Poems
- Side 19 The Empire State Building Is on 63rd Street Ramon ...
- Latin & Soul some waves a wave of now ...
- Two Guitars Two guitars were left in a room all alone They ...
- El Poema de lo Reverso In which everything goes backwards in...
- Dolores Street Through the Victorians spinning a wool of ...
- Vigo Martin In a city that now floats in a bottle, In a ...
- Problems with Hurricanes A campesino looked at the air And ...
Victor Hernandez Cruz was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico. He moved to New York City with his family when he was five years old, but he didn’t start learning English until two years later when his family bought a television set. He started writing poetry early and at seventeen self-published his first book, Papo Got His Gun! And Other Poems, on a mimeograph machine. Since then, more than a dozen collections of his poems—among them Snaps (1969); By Lingual Wholes (1982); Red Beans (1991); Rhythm, Content, and Flavor: New and Selected Poems (1989); and The Mountain in the Sea (2006)—have been published by traditional publishing houses. He is a member of the Nuyorican movement of writers. ... more »
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Side 19
The Empire State Building
Is on 63rd Street
Ramon wanted to bet Manolo
Manolo said impossible
The Empire State Building
Is on 72nd Street
They made a ten dollar bet
And borrowed Cheo's car
And headed towards Brooklin
When they came back
Late that night
All that Manolo wanted to know
Was
If Gloria cooked
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